 It may be as ours. I have sent to you a dwindle in the pens of pasture and time constricts. It is soon that we shall all perish. Blood of this planet shall answer. I am returning. My father dug this scene. He put small rocks. I guess it is pretty late. I really have to get in. Good night, Pop. You're a guest. Johnson, but you have to have a blood test. We don't hand out blood like gasoline, you know? We have to find out whether you need Ethel or regular. Don't have to be with you in a moment. What is in pathology? Oh, doctor, this is Mr. Johnson. He's here for an immediate transfusion. I see. Well, Mr. Johnson, we'll look you over right away. Nadine, will you take him into the lab and run his test? Oh, no, he's having a fast pine on the fly. No test. Would you come inside, please? Sit down, won't you? Now, Mr. Johnson, why don't you want a blood test? I choose not to reveal the reason. Just to try another doctor. Yes, we have blood. When the doctor on Earth will transfuse blood without first learning the patient's type, R-H factor and other peculiarities. The wrong kind would probably kill you. I must have blood. I'm dying. I can't take your word for any of those facts. No bleeding. In some moments, but then thinly. Have you been to see another doctor? None that you know. A hematologist? Blood doctor? Will you give me the transfusion? Not unless you submit to a test. Then without a specimen of my blood for study, it is impossible. Impossible? You may study it in all the ways of your kind, and you may learn, but you may not speak. You will not. You cannot transmit to any other being your knowledge of my tragedy. Glad you changed your mind. Take off your coat, and disintegrating at an uninterrupted rate, resulting in the destruction of the cellular structure of the blood. There, that should do it. How long have you been a nurse? I graduated seven years ago. You are a good one. That's no question to be asking a nurse. You relax, and I'll be right back. Wait. Do you work always in hospitals, or may you treat private cases? Well, I special occasionally. That is good. I would like you to work for me. Oh, you would. Doing what? Reserving my health, that I do not expire. Mr. Johnson, no one in this wide world can guarantee life. Or in any other I fear. No, I suppose not. What monies do you receive for the work of your profession? Mr. Johnson, that's a very personal question. It is. If you will serve me, I shall pay you $200 each week. Let me tell you something, sir. No nurse would dream of getting $200 a week. Well, it's ridiculous. Besides, it has a sound of something very unethical. Would it still be unethical if Dr. Rochelle asked you to serve me? Would Dr. Rochelle assign me to your case? I see. Would you ask the doctor to come to me? Yes, Mr. Johnson. And you would administer 500 cc's of typo every night until further orders from me? Yes, doctor. Just what is wrong with him? Well, it's very interesting. I'm not positive. There are indications of internal hemorrhage. I see. How long does he have? How long it's in the hands of God. I've never met anyone who commits so many violations all at once. He seems aggressive. Why? I'll talk to him, Mr. Johnson. You get in the car. I know him. Now, don't start writing until I explain. How do you plan to explain a way a no parking sign, a fire plug, a red zone in the wrong side of the street? I think this man's won himself a ticket. He's in a critical state. Now, you put away that pad and stop playing stormtrooper. I've got to send this man home. He's critical, son. Shiny's critical. But I'll just tag along and see if he gets there safe and sound. Then maybe I'll take you in. Why? I haven't done anything. Why not? Everybody, you might enjoy a little light reading. I told you not to go driving the car before you learn how. You haven't company? Where is she going to sleep in? South Wing. I shall be in the kitchen. But I had to clean up my desk at the hospital. Do not excuse further duties until tomorrow. Then I'll say good night, Mr. Johnson. You locked my door. I did, yes. I'm going to be locked up. I'd like to do my own locking. In the place from which I come, no person would dare sleep in insecure quarters. Good night. Dwindle and the pens of pasture and time construe earth subhumans. Phase one is steady. In the second phase, you shall increase the quantity of earth blood which you are transmitting to Devanna. A specimen. A subhuman to be used into the sectory research. Phase three is a live specimen. Phase four. Which earth blood value will be determined by your survival or your death? Phase four is my life or death. If earth blood preserves your life, phase five will be the conquest, subjugation, and pasturing of the earth subhumans upon your order. Phase five is conquest, subjugation, and pasturing if I live. Phase six will be the utter obliteration of this planet by your order. Dependent upon the anticipated failure of your experiment. Phase six is destruction of this planet if I am to die. Phase six concludes the instructions. Second, Mysterio, food at the public library. I hope you eat something this morning. I'm getting sick of throwing away good food. Anything else, bossman? No, nothing. Yeah, I got breakfast. Leave it on the bureau, will you? After a stretch here, I'll get a job at the Ritz. Why, does Mr. Johnson pay you very much? He pays me too much. I think the guy's short a few nuts and bolts. Just how much he does pay you? Nothing you could do without a line, baby. Pay me 300 or worse, anything. Such as? Such as making sure nobody goes near the cellar and such as changing little gold ingots he gives me in the U.S. money. What do you do, kid? I'm here to keep Mr. Johnson healthy. I'm already healthy. What time do you get off work? You're happy, Jeremy. Johnson, you strike me as a very healthy man. I am pleased. Perhaps your treatments will prevent my predicted death. A man who thinks he's going to die you seem to be pretty casual about it. How can one not be casual? That is not a remarkable thing. No, but it's not exactly something one looks forward to with kitty anticipation. That is true. Nor with undue dread. You have no further duties until this evening. So you may do as you like with your time until then. Thanks. I think I'll try that pool of yours. You're going to get yourself wet. I think everybody in this house could use a little exercise. Save me a little water when I get back from town. I'll do that. You could probably use it. Hey, I've got a hook and line inside. Maybe I ought to go get it, huh? I'm afraid, Jeremy, you just haven't got the right date. I represent the airway vacuum cleaning company. You the gentleman of the house, this is my house. Crazy. I'd like to show you the product. You wish that I had purchased your machine. I don't want you to purchase, mister. I just want to give you a free demonstration. You want to purchase your purchase. You don't want to purchase your own purchase. I ain't going to force you to purchase. This is one of our standard attachments. Clean any rug you've got in the house, no matter how deep the pile or how delicate the fabric. Ain't that something? I do not wish to purchase. Finish, will you? This, as they say in the vernacular, is the darling of the vacuum cleaning world. You ever trouble with stuffed up pipes and drains like a kitchen or a cellar? See, it goes right in front of a pipe. No persistence. Leave my house. Give me a chance, will you? It's just a demonstration. You see this little baby at work in your own cellar, your time flip-flops. Let me have five minutes of your time in your own cellar. I'll prove to you that this little baby can do what no other vacuum cleaner in the world can do. In my cellar? That's right. Take only five minutes. Glad to see your machine in operation. Well, you just take a look at the dirt in that drain pipe, buddy. Ain't that a shame? You never know what a thing like that's going to give you trouble. Well, we'll have it out of there in a jiffy. It's a very simple operation. Ordered you not to sound the warning horn. I'll make any high decibel noises by near me. Sorry, boss. The jerk cut me off. Jeremy. Those aren't gentlemen, those are bums. Those characters have hit the bottom of the barrel. They live from one day to the next just for a shot of cheap hooch. They're unfortunate. They're happy. Give them a little wine or a bottle of hair tonic and a tickled pink. What'd you say, boss? Nothing. Jeremy, I want you to invite one, no three of those gentlemen, to dinner tonight. Dinner? Are you kidding? Tonight, Jeremy. You'll proceed to the library. Well, anything you say. I'm afraid that guy has a chronic illness. Where he going? Oh, over to seeing the dean in our patient. Oh, thanks. I hope you and the dean stay on friendly terms. At least until I'm back on wheels. See you've got yourself a new chauffeur. Officers shareboard. Classmates? Yeah. Jeremy here spends his summers with us. What's he doing here? That's the doctor to come into my house. We're a man of Johnson's class. He's probably trying to reform. Come on in. I'll build you a cup of coffee while the brain starts. Thank you. As you receive, however, your blood is predictable. Have you spoken to any one of this? No, I've put an absolute secret. Can you tell me anything that I do not know? I can tell you this. Your blood is different from any I've ever studied in my entire career. Nerves should be able to live with such a low count of red corpus ulcers you have. Continue. In the second place, your blood's behaving in an impossible manner. The euclucanin's breaking down, destroying the basic structure of the blood itself. Is evaporated blood? Well, that's an oversimplification. Blood within the veins couldn't possibly evaporate. The more precise term would be... Evaporation as a term would suffice, doctor. Have you found a cause? Not yet. But you think you will. I may. I'm already neglecting my other work to devote all my time to this problem. God forbid such a dreadful new plague should strike the earth. You seem already aware of what's happening to you. I am aware, doctor. If a cure is not soon forthcoming, the blood of my body will turn to dust and I will die. As a doctor, it's my job to try to cheer up the patient. That is an infantile attitude, doctor. Continue your studies and return to me again when you have learned more. As perhaps I shall learn something soon, I feel that time is the great element in this case. Time is indeed the only element, doctor. Return soon, doctor. I said carp in the kitchen as Bill and Nadine would lies about me. You are safe in my employ, Jeremy. Tell the policeman to take the doctor away. Then you will go to the park and collect my dinner guests. But, boss... All right, BD, you win. But I have to be home early. Well, well, a big lover. What's your angle here, Pittsburgh? It's straight. The dog is waiting in the car for you, flat foot. You have such an honest face. Did you swipe my bathing cap because I can't seem to find it? No. I got to go now. My boss, he's a crackpot philanthropist. Chase, sir. You get a free fifth of French cognac when you leave. Got a couple of friends? There it is. Someone want to be a cop. Or a nurse. There must be something about helping people to get into characters like us. Or the money. Or the hours. You like this job you're on? It's some kind of a foreigner, isn't it? Got a dialect, but I can't place it. I have to ask him. He has a fantastically powerful mind and yet he seems unaware of the simplest things. Like a parked car. Those glasses. I don't know. I guess my patient's condition, you know. I'm interested in the condition of a certain nurse. Don't worry about me. Did you ever try and tangle with a nurse? No, but I've seen a couple of heavyweights take their counts when they try. There's a few things in our training that might surprise you. You want a vest? I guess this is your house. Treatment for high class nurses. Be careful, Nenadine. I'll be alright. I'm a big girl now. Tell me, leave me a million bucks. Me either to Curio. Wait, it sends me a box of saltwater candy every Christmas. Leave me as a child. Every now and then she gets on the phone and have a nice long collect chat with me. You may increase. Mr. Johnson, for a man who didn't know he had to have a blood test before a transfusion, the last three days? Yes. Perhaps you could give me a bit of information that I was unable to discover in my research. What's that? In the uranium method of cancer examination, it is true that the uranium flies to the cancerous area, but the book's neglected to give me an explanation. True, nobody knows the reason. Then one assumption may be that since cancer attracts radioactivity, that the cancerous tissue itself may be charged with a negative energy. Possibly that might lead to a cure. What do you think? I'm sure I don't think anything, Mr. Johnson. Now you just... you just lie still until the transfusion is finished. Yes. Call me yourself. No more than three days. You'll get into it, or maybe you took a bath in it. Now he has six kinds of a freak. Maybe you're right, Jeremy. Yeah, baby, sure, I'm right. The last two days, it looked worse than different. The night before last, he had me bring those stumble-bums out here to dinner, remember? Yeah, I saw them when I left on my day with Eric. They stayed in. What do you mean? After dinner, he sends me out to work on the car. Later, I come back and he says the bums are gone. But they ain't. Because I was outside all the time and I would have heard them. You mean to tell me that you think that they're still complacent in this house? I don't think nothing. But what happened last night was a real deal. What happened? There's a Chinaman with him. I can see in the dark. He takes a Chinaman into his room and neither one of them comes out. I saw the boss in there this morning and he acted like nothing happened. Well, maybe nothing did. I figure it's my business to think the same thing. Sometimes I get the creeps. Want to snoop around some? Maybe he's making atom bombs down in the basement. No, I think we're jumping at shadows. Mr. Johnson's a very considerate employer. I will tell you one thing. As his nurse, I think I ought to take this down the lap and find out what it is Mr. Johnson's putting inside of himself. Instead of... What are we going today, boys? Plot near fire. Why the station? I would like the vehicle scrutinized for any possible mechanical damage I might have done. Okay. She went into town to catch a show. Yeah, she lost it. And the seller, Jeremy. Do you have any idea what it is? No. None at all. Where'd you get it? That doctor's a secret. I'll let you in on later. Let's just say it's a food supplement a friend of mine developed. A food supplement? Oh, it's something for an internist to analyze, not for me. I know, but I think you might find it interesting. It's for you, Nadine. He says he's the FBI. Oh, all right. I'll be right there. I have this blood sample test. Did you have the dog pound send over? And? It's rabies all right. A virulent case. Well, label it carefully, please, and put it back in the chest. I'll have a use for it later. Secret agent Doremi? Did you track down those stolen police arts support? Yeah, well, that's another kind of support. Well, at least you can't call me a flat foot. What's happening tonight? Eclipse in the Moon in Johannesburg, South Africa. What say we eclipse a steak? I'm on night duty. Go on a night. I should have those tests run by then. Oh, I did want to see the results of those tests. I'll tell you what. Harry will probably take me to the El Dorado. Do you know the place? Very well. Well, then I'll make sure he takes me there. And when you get the final results of the supplement, come on over and have a bite with us. I'll see you later. Be a dispatch. I had to do it. I had to escape the mall. What has happened? The wars are finished. The blood supply vanishes. The enemy captives have been taken from pasture, killed and their blood removed on the spot. And you may help me to expedite my work here. I shall help you. You are the recorder. I sent a live specimen through the beam of the courier. Was the sub-human satisfactory? Murdered forest blood. The specimen of Earth humanoid arrived in the Devana beam in a compressed state. He was crushed to the size of this communication. Crushed? The department concluded reservately that it is impossible to transmit a human or sub-human anatomy through the beam from the Earth end. The courier lived because he never left the beam. If the conclusion is correct, you and I will be unable to return to Devana. However, I shall send another specimen this night. If it is correct, we must remain upon this world until we expire. I would prefer the outer planets of this system to the present agony of Devana. That is an emotional statement. It is an emotional time. And if I do not receive blood within four chronoctons of time, I will have no continuing need for emotion. You shall have blood. Every vitamin known to man, has been seen before. And it has the basic food structures concentrated with bulk, roughage, energy, and diet control. Molecular structure. You mean that he's combined all of this into one primary unit? Yes. Who's he? Mr. Johnson. Possible to reproduce Johnson's unit. I think we've discussed this sufficiently. I guess I'll try the breaded deal cutlets. This looks like an exhibit from a vocal age museum. This world is as ours was of that time. Your observation is correct. Doctor, don't you even want to discuss this supplement thing? No, my dear, I do not. Well, I don't understand. Long day. Now, I've described the compound to you. That's all there is to it. I'd like to eat my dinner and get back to the clinic. I feel disturbed. There is activity within me. It will pass. We proceed to your dwelling? No, we are too similar. There is a hotel 50 deco beds in that direction. It's one of the subhumans. I do not know how to behave. A clerk will speak to you vocally. You must remain in a state of lingua receptivity and imitate his sounds and meanings. You will remain in contact. I will come to you at the hotel place on the noon of the earth star. She's slipping, doctor. Well, massage her on. Yes, I know. I'll take those glasses off. A lot of cars parking tonight. A woman who died, she had no eyes. The two cars were the same kind of glasses Johnson wears. Nadine, are you been drinking? Look, if I didn't have to go on duty in a half hour, I'd come out there and get you myself. Just take my word for it. Johnson's dangerous and get out of there. Well, maybe I have got something I'll tell you what. You stay there until just before you have to go on duty. I'll see what I can find out of my own and then I'll call you back. Are you nuts? Beat it out of that place. Goodbye, doll. It can't hurt me now. It doesn't work now. I don't think he's for real. He took off in the car with some queer looking dame. Well, this gives us a chance to search the house. Come on, let's try the living room. You better make it snappy. There it is. No one on this world ever made it. You mean a boss is some kind of man from Mars? I don't care what he is, but I think we ought to smash this thing. 20 pounds sledge. Well, there's nothing we can do about this. I'll stay here. You get out and sell it and see what you can find. Okay. He said she was like Johnson. Any visible aperture on her up? Doctor, do you think Mr. Johnson is suffering from the same disease as this woman? I will not discuss Mr. Johnson. Where would such an atmosphere be found? This cure, Mr. Johnson. Dr. Rochelle, does this man have some kind of a power over you? Has he threatened your life or something? Nadine, I really must hang up. I have a great deal of work to do. Look, Dr. Rochelle, I... Maybe I can help you down and tell me what's the matter. What's up? This is some hysterical dame wants to talk to you. Can't figure what...